Utility Weighs Final Shutdown
Of Connecticut Nuclear Plant

By

Barbara Carton Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Sept. 3, 1996 12:32 a.m. ET

HADDAM NECK, Conn. -- Officials at the Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant will consider a permanent shutdown of the troubled facility if an analysis to be completed within the next two months concludes that operation isn't economically feasible.

In the meantime, workers have been told not to prepare new fuel for the reactor, and an internal memo distributed last week to employees warned of "tight" economics and called...